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Healthcare workers union eyes vaccination protections.
2003 JAN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The nation's largest union representing health care workers has announced that various protections are needed for nurses and others set to receive smallpox vaccinations three decades after the United States stopped using the vaccine because it was too dangerous.
Officials with the Service Employees International Union met with top Bush administration officials December 4, 2002, seeking assurances that workers who get sick from the vaccine can take time off and that people offered the vaccine will be properly screened for a variety of conditions first.
"Without better protections, the proposed plan could put hospital patients, caregivers and the public at risk," the union, which represents 710,000 medical workers, said in a statement.
At press time, the administration was expected to announce its plan for resuming smallpox vaccinations, part of the effort to prepare for a possible bioterror attack with the virus.
Officials said the Bush plan will offer the vaccine in stages, beginning with those most likely to encounter a contagious patient, including those who would be needed to help investigate suspicious smallpox cases and those who would vaccinate others if the disease were to return.
Health care workers are at the top of the list. Under the plan, during the first stage of vaccinations, the shots would be offered to people who work in hospital emergency rooms, and the second stage would cover all other health care workers.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Healthcare workers union eyes vaccination protections.